About Companies In The UK
Companies In The UK is an independent platform for UK company information, financial data and business intelligence. We help businesses, professionals and researchers make informed decisions using data from the official public record.
What we offer
- Company profiles for every company on the UK register, updated daily
- Financial data extracted from filed accounts, with year-by-year history
- Official company documents and filing history
- Director and officer information, and persons with significant control
- Official Gazette notices, registered charges, and location data
- Free AI-written company analysis
- Company monitoring with email alerts
Our data
Our information is sourced from Companies House, The Gazette (the UK's official public record) and other public registers, processed and updated continuously. Data is provided for information purposes and should be verified against the official register before being relied upon.
Where each dataset comes from
| Data | Source | Updated | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Company register, officers, PSC | Companies House stream + bulk files | continuously | public register data |
| Accounts & financials | Companies House bulk accounts (iXBRL) | daily | public register data |
| Gazette notices | The Gazette official API | daily | OGL v3.0 |
| Director disqualifications | Insolvency Service | daily | public register data |
| Government contracts | Contracts Finder (OCDS) | weekly | OGL v3.0 |
| Charity registrations | Charity Commission for England and Wales | weekly | OGL v3.0 |
| CQC care ratings | Care Quality Commission | weekly | OGL, using CQC information |
| Visa sponsor licences | Home Office register of licensed sponsors | weekly, matched by registered name | OGL v3.0 |
| Gender pay gap | gender-pay-gap.service.gov.uk | monthly | OGL v3.0 |
| Modern slavery statements | Government statement registry | monthly | OGL v3.0 |
| Land & property (counts and counties) | HM Land Registry CCOD | monthly | HMLR licence — addresses never shown |
| Patents | European Patent Office (OPS) | nightly, demand-weighted | EPO OPS terms |
| Company websites | our own crawler, from the company's site | rolling refresh | — |
Aggregate numbers on the statistics pages are computed from this same register mirror on a weekly snapshot. You are welcome to cite them with attribution to CompaniesInTheUK and a link.
What we never do
We publish facts from public registers, never verdicts: no credit scores, no risk ratings, no predictions about a named company. Removal requests for personal data are handled through the contact form and reviewed by a person.
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